Winter Scripting Games: Profiles in Perfection
Richard Siddaway
As part of the 2008 Winter Scripting Games the Script Center is profiling competitors who recorded a perfect score in the 2007 Scripting Games. Here, in his own words, is a little something about Richard Siddaway, who received a perfect score in the Windows PowerShell Advanced division.
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Richard Siddaway
Richard Siddaway is Microsoft Practice Leader for Centiq Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in management, measurement, optimization and migration involving Microsoft technologies. With over 20 years experience in various aspects of IT, Richard is currently concentrating on the Microsoft environment at an architectural level, centered around Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server and Infrastructure Optimization. Much of his recent experience has involved migrating enterprises from Windows NT\Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2003\Exchange 2003. Richard has administration experience with several database systems especially SQL Server. His initial programming background is still useful, as Richard is a very experienced scripter always looking for the opportunity to automate a process. Having discovered Windows PowerShell 18 months ago he has enthusiastically adopted it in preference to VBScript; in fact, Richard founded and currently leads the UK PowerShell User Group. Richard has presented to the Directory Experts Conference 2007, at various events at Microsoft UK (including the last Community Day) and for other UK User Groups.
Richard can be contacted through his blog at http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com.
Tips for the Games. Really read all of the problem description before you start coding, and make sure to test your script so that it completes the problem exactly. If you can't complete a question just keep going. There's only one way to learn scripting and that is to do it.
